Rush Hour: Activist’s NSA detention quashed, ex-bureaucrat allegedly questioned about X post & more
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·2 Sept 2026
The Allahabad High Court quashed the preventive detention of 25-year-old Aakriti Chaudhary under the National Security Act.
Ex-bureaucrat allegedly questioned by Delhi Police for X post about Amit Shah, released hours later
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·2 Sept 2026
Former civil servant Ashish Joshi was picked up while on his morning walk by men in plain clothes, purportedly Delhi Police personnel, and asked to follow them to the Special Cell police station in...
How a ‘super El Niño’ could make India’s monsoon drier – yet more dangerous
Scroll.inby Ligin Joseph, The Conversation·2 Sept 2026
India is currently in the middle of its summer monsoon, but this year’s rainfall presents an interesting paradox.
Horror fiction: A dentist in 1990s Lahore begins to notice strange patterns in his patients
Scroll.inby Ayesha Muzaffar·2 Sept 2026
Rahim and Salman were part of a group of six. There were others – Jahangir, Aamir, Farooq, and Zulfi.
Ahead of Mohan Bhagwat visit, UK groups urge mayor to deny London Authority venue for RSS event
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·2 Sept 2026
A group of 15 civil society organisations and individuals in the United Kingdom on Wednesday wrote to London Mayor Sadiq Khan, seeking that no venue owned by the Greater London Authority be made...
Noida workers’ protest: HC quashes NSA detention of 25-year-old activist
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·2 Sept 2026
The Allahabad High Court quashed the detention under the National Security Act of a 25-year-old Delhi University graduate who has been in jail for nearly five months in connection with the workers’...
This book explains why cricket’s Women’s Premier League is influential and here to stay
Scroll.inby Swayam Ganguly·2 Sept 2026
The inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League or the WPL began in 2023 and was organised by the BCCI.
SC seeks Centre, EC views on introducing ‘totalisers’ to count votes in clusters
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·2 Sept 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Union government to submit its views on introducing a totaliser system to count votes recorded in a cluster of electronic voting machines, reported Live Law.
More Indian students are abandoning higher education as degrees no longer seem worth the cost
Scroll.inby Milind Murugkar·2 Sept 2026
While the youth protests were underway at the Jantar Mantar in the first week of July, the Central government published two crucial reports on higher education enrollment: the All India Survey on...
PM’s economic adviser denies allegations of Centre manipulating GDP data
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·2 Sept 2026
Prime Minister’s Economic Adviser Sanjeev Sanyal in an interview to India Today on Tuesday defended the Union government’s change in the methodology for calculating the gross domestic product amid...
In a new book, a journalist tries to understand India’s deep suspicion of Hindu-Muslim couples
Scroll.inby Ismat Ara·2 Sept 2026
On a hot May evening in 2025, I arrived at the office of the superintendent of police in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district.
‘Furious’ review: A riveting tale of angry women and vigilante justice
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·2 Sept 2026
Furious will go down as one of the definitive explorations of the depraved culture that nurtured predators like Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
‘Maxxing’ is just self-care and improvement repackaged for social media
Scroll.inby Jennifer Donnelly, The Conversation·1 Sept 2026
If you want to improve yourself, your health or your lifestyle, you need to do it to the “maxx” – according to social media, at least.
Kolkata: Protesters paint ‘Anandabazar Patrika’ office saffron after row over headline
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·1 Sept 2026
A group of men purportedly associated with Hindutva outfits staged a protest outside the office of newspaper Anandabazar Patrika and painted parts of its white building saffron, The Hindu reported.
Hyderabad: SIR deletions equal 89% of 2023 Assembly election turnout, shows study
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·1 Sept 2026
The number of voters removed from Hyderabad’s draft electoral rolls during the special intensive revision – 19.4 lakh – was equivalent to 89% of the votes polled in the city in the 2023 Assembly...
CJP calls off September 5 march as SC quashes FIRs linked to youth protests
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·1 Sept 2026
The Cockroach Janta Party has withdrawn its call for a march on September 5 after the Union government moved to quash cases against protesters, Live Law quoted the political campaign’s co-convener...
New NCLT bench stays order clearing Subhash Chandra’s Rs 6.2 crore repayment plan
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·1 Sept 2026
A five-member bench of the National Company Law Tribunal on Tuesday stayed the approval of a repayment plan under which media baron Subhash Chandra was allowed to pay Rs 6.2 crore to creditors...
Two days after Bhagwat’s speech in New York, 90 US politicians pledge to not take RSS-linked funding
Scroll.inby Oishika Neogi·1 Sept 2026
As Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Mohan Bhagwat took the stage at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Saturday to deliver a message of “universal oneness”, a group of nearly 90 American...
This book on news photography in India examines how some images became the nation’s visual memory
Scroll.inby Binoo K John·1 Sept 2026
When the Covid pandemic hit around March 2020, death itself lost its meaning because everyone was dying or was on the waiting list to hell.
Avoid foreign travel and gold purchases, reiterates PM Modi in video from Kyrgyzstan
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·1 Sept 2026
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday once again appealed to Indians not to travel abroad and refrain from buying gold.
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